English-Thai Dictionary

familiarity

N ความคุ้นเคย  ความ สนิทสนม  ความเคยชิน  friendliness intimacy kwam-kun-koei

 

familiarity

N ความ เชี่ยวชาญ  ความรอบรู้  ความชำนาญ  experience mastery knowledge kwam-chiao-chan

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FAMILIARITY

n. 1. Intimate and frequent converse, or association in company. The gentlemen lived in remarkable familiarity. Hence,
2. Easiness of conversation; affability; freedom from ceremony.
3. Intimacy; intimate acquaintance; unconstrained intercourse.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

FAMILIARITY

Fa *mil `iar "i *ty, n.; pl. Familiarities. Etym: [OE. familarite, F.familiaritéfr. L. faniliaritas. See Familiar. ]

 

1. The state of being familiar; intimate and frequent converse, or association; unconstrained intercourse; freedom from ceremony and constraint; intimacy; as, to live in remarkable familiarity.

 

2. Anything said or done by one person to another unceremoniously and without constraint; esp. , in the pl. , such actions and words as propriety and courtesy do not warrant; liberties.

 

Syn. -- Acquaintance; fellowship; affability; intimacy. See Acquaintance.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

familiarity

fa mil iar i ty |fəˌmilēˈaritē, -milˈyar -fəˌmɪliˈɛrədi | ▶noun ( pl. familiarities ) close acquaintance with or knowledge of something: increase customer familiarity with a product. • the quality of being well known; recognizability based on long or close association: the reassuring familiarity of his parents' home. • relaxed friendliness or intimacy between people: familiarity allows us to give each other nicknames. • inappropriate and often offensive informality of behavior or language: the unnecessary familiarity made me dislike him at once. PHRASES familiarity breeds contempt proverb extensive knowledge of or close association with someone or something leads to a loss of respect for them or it. ORIGIN Middle English (in the senses ‘close relationship ’ and ‘sexual intimacy ’): via Old French from Latin familiaritas, from familiaris ‘familiar, intimate ’ (see familiar ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

familiarity

fa ¦mil ¦iar |ity |fəmɪlɪˈarɪti | ▶noun ( pl. familiarities ) [ mass noun ] 1 close acquaintance with or knowledge of something: his familiarity with the works of Thomas Hardy. • the quality of being well known from long or close association: the reassuring familiarity of his parents' home. 2 relaxed friendliness or intimacy between people: familiarity allows us to give each other nicknames. • inappropriate informality or intimacy: the unnecessary familiarity made me dislike him at once. PHRASES familiarity breeds contempt proverb extensive knowledge of or close association with someone or something leads to a loss of respect for them or it. ORIGIN Middle English (in the senses ‘close relationship ’ and ‘sexual intimacy ’): via Old French from Latin familiaritas, from familiaris ‘familiar, intimate ’ (see familiar ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

familiarity

familiarity noun 1 her familiarity with Asian politics: acquaintance with, awareness of, experience with /of, insight into, knowledge of, understanding of, comprehension of, grasp of, skill in, proficiency in. 2 she was affronted by his familiarity: presumption, overfamiliarity, presumptuousness, forwardness, boldness, audacity, cheek, impudence, impertinence, disrespect; liberties. 3 our familiarity allows us to tease one another: closeness, intimacy, attachment, affinity, friendliness, friendship, amity; informal chumminess.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

familiarity

familiarity noun 1 he wants to gain greater familiarity with European politics: acquaintance with, acquaintanceship with, awareness of, experience of, insight into, conversancy with, conversance with; knowledge of, understanding of, comprehension of, cognizance of, grasp of, mastery of, skill with, skill in, proficiency in, expertise in. 2 the reassuring familiarity of his parents' home: ordinariness, customariness, normality, conventionality. 3 they feel comfortable with you because of your familiarity: informality, casualness, ease, comfortableness, friendliness, lack of ceremony, lack of restraint, lack of reserve, naturalness, simplicity. 4 she was affronted by his familiarity: overfamiliarity, presumption, presumptuousness, forwardness, boldness, audacity, cheek, impudence, impertinence, intrusiveness, disrespect, disrespectfulness; liberties; informal sauce, cockiness; archaic assumption. 5 our familiarity allows us to give each other nicknames: closeness, intimacy, attachment, affinity, friendliness, friendship, amity; informal chumminess, palliness; Brit. informal mateyness.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

familiarity

fa mil iar i ty /fəmɪ̀ljǽrəti |-iǽr -/〖→familiar 〗名詞 複 -ties /-z /1 U 【物 事 場所について 】よく知っていること , 精通 «with » (!具体例ではa (…) ～) ; 【物 事が /人に 】よく知られていること «of /to » ▸ have a familiarity with the rules of grammar 文法規則を熟知している 2 U 【人との 】親しさ , 親交 ; 親密感, 親近感 «with » ; 気安さ .3 U なれなれしさ, 無遠慮 (!具体例ではa (…) ～) ; C なれなれしい [無遠慮な ]言動, 性的関係 (!しばしば -ties ) ▸ Familiarity breeds contempt .｟ことわざ ｠親しき中にも礼儀あり